[Football] Women's Football - Discuss

Questions said:

It’s not that they wouldnt beat certain levels of men for me - for the record I don’t think they would get anywhere near a good county league team - it’s just that they struggle to play on a pitch with the size of goals we have with their lack of physical abilities compared to men. Younger lads play on smaller pitches. Why do women only play 3 sets in tennis ? We know why.

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hart's shirt said:

As for the attendance, according to the BBC:

"...it's a WSL record of 5,265 - beating the previous mark of 5,052 in a match between Arsenal and Chelsea at Emirates Stadium in 2012.

That crowd is around 10 times bigger than Albion's average gate when they play at Crawley Town's Broadfield Stadium...."

https://www.bbc.com/sport/live/football/48029645

For those that are there, is 1/6th of the Amex full?

It would be interesting to know how the attendance was calculated - paid / free tickets, numbers through the turnstiles, etc.

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tedebear said:

Some of the views on here are pretty horrendous to be honest, but sadly still widely vocalised. If you don't want to watch it don't, no need to pass derogatory comments in the process of doing so. Women are second best in alot of things in life, and having had first hand experience in my sporting career and my professional career of having to work twice as hard for 2/3rds the rewards, its disheartening when it rears its ugly head with a minority of patronising men. Why is it when its women its boring or poor, but when its the mens game, you'll talk failing tactics or bad managers or out of position players, crap transfers, bad signings, bad attitude, but we don't get the respect of being criticised for our tactics or effort or skill, we're just boring. I'd suggest todays womens game will be better than yesterdays first half!!

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DumLum said:

Having to work twice as hard for two thirds of the money is disgraceful and times are changing thankfully. I experienced middle class tory bosses in their 60s at work and their attidudes stink. I can't think of many jobs where women can't do as well as a man and that the lack of female bosses and difference in pay is unacceptable. However Proffesional Footballer is one of them. They are slower, not as strong, can't kick the ball as powerfully and the goalkeepers. This makes the women's game in my opinion inferior entertainment. We also know an under 15 boys team beats them and as most of us played under 15s football is always in our mind. I wouldn't need to comment but it's being artificially promoted by the likes of the BBC and The Club. So no you can't avoid it, if you don't like it. If you saw an advert on Instagram everyday and there was no way of switching it off you wouldn't have a favourable relationship for that company and you might start rebelling against it?
You might start calling it boring.

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tedebear said:

Some of the views on here are pretty horrendous to be honest, but sadly still widely vocalised. If you don't want to watch it don't, no need to pass derogatory comments in the process of doing so. Women are second best in alot of things in life, and having had first hand experience in my sporting career and my professional career of having to work twice as hard for 2/3rds the rewards, its disheartening when it rears its ugly head with a minority of patronising men. Why is it when its women its boring or poor, but when its the mens game, you'll talk failing tactics or bad managers or out of position players, crap transfers, bad signings, bad attitude, but we don't get the respect of being criticised for our tactics or effort or skill, we're just boring. I'd suggest todays womens game will be better than yesterdays first half!!

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tedebear said:

Your instagram feed says more about your browsing habits than anything else...

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DumLum said:

If that's a dig I don't get it.
Not always your browsing history though we know our phones are listening to us. For example Kiefer Sutherland was a guest on the radio the other day. I was listening in my car I have little interest in him but within 12 hours I was being bombarded with adverts for his new album. Kiefer got blocked.

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